Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 52
Another strange adventure happened when the voyagers came to Thrace, where they found a poor blind king, named Phineus, deserted by his subjects, and living in a very sorrowful way, all by himself.
Who acts: strange adventure, voyagers · What happens: happen, come, find, name, desert, live · To what, where: Thrace, poor blind king, Phineus, sorrowful way
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange adventure, voyagers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 adventure | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 adventure | amod |
| 3 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voyagers | det |
| 7 | voyagers | voyager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Thrace | case |
| 10 | Thrace | Thrace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 found | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Thrace | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 king | amod |
| 17 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 king | amod |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 named | punct |
| 20 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 king | acl |
| 21 | Phineus | Phineus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 named | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 deserted | punct |
| 23 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Phineus | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 subjects | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 26 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 deserted | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 living | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 living | cc |
| 29 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 way | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 way | det |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 sorrowful | advmod |
| 33 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 way | amod |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 living | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 himself | punct |
| 36 | all | all | ADV | _ | 38 himself | advmod |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 himself | case |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 living | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | another strange adventure | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the voyagers | Thrace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thrace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | voyagers = voyager | a poor blind king | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | a poor blind king not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | desert | participle | Phineus not said here | by Phineus's subjects | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | live | gerund | another strange adventure not said here | a sorrowful way | by Phineus | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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